Adventures of a Water Drop, California Style
Forward: An Autobiographical Synopsis Let me introduce myself. I am a California water drop. I condensed from billions of water vapor molecules in the air above the North Pacific...
Applied Geography
Evolving Diversity Redraws our Political Maps
California has a long-established political geography history that has surprised and puzzled pundits and alternately frustrated and delighted liberals and conservatives on all sides of the spectrum. More recently,...
Mapping L.A.’s Melting Pot Restaurants
Our continued celebration of California’s unequaled cultural diversity directs us back to the ethnic restaurants of Los Angeles. Here, we are proud to share the extraordinary work of one...
Desert Quakes and Ancient Lakes: Geopostcards from Searles Valley
In early July 2019, a series of powerful earthquakes fractured the desert, generating violent seismic waves that eventually rippled across the state and dissipated into California’s distant cities. A...
Cultural Tour of Los Angeles: Eat Your Way through L.A.
A few decades ago, demographic data began to reveal how California was becoming the most culturally diverse state and Los Angeles the most culturally diverse metropolitan area in the...
COVID-free Spaces in Pandemic Places: Coping with COVID-19 across California
As the COVID-19 pandemic peaks again in the fall and drags on into winter, 2020, it is our duty to provide this update, our latest attempt to make a...
COVID-19 Attacks California
An ominous, somewhat Orwellian electronic road sign loomed over us: “Stay calm, Stay informed, Stay safe.” For the two decades since this project began, we’ve analyzed scores of earthquakes,...
Hurricanes in California?
Hurricane Dorian, after battering the Bahamas on Tuesday (09/03/19), has today pivoted to threaten the Carolinas. Though downgraded from a Category 5 to a Category 2 storm, Dorian still...
Forest Management, Fires, Urban Renewal, and a Life of Purpose
Perhaps the most rewarding aspect of working as a college instructor is watching your students’ progress. They are hopefully gathering the necessary knowledge and skills for survival and success,...
New Technologies For Understanding Seismic Risks
Chapter 3 of Rediscovering the Golden State covers our modern geologic features, including a survey of the state’s major faults and the seismic risks they represent. Recent research on...
